Gunmen, kill 3, Maiduguri, Snatched LG car

MAIDUGURI— FIVE suspected armed robbers, yesterday, killed two policemen and a staff of Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno State and carted away millions of naira that was meant for the payment of salary of the local government employees.

Witnesses said the police had escorted the staff of the finance department of the local government, who withdrew the unspecified amount of money at a new generation bank in Maiduguri, the state capital, but were intercepted along Magumeri-Gubio highway.

A staff of the local government told our correspondent on condition of anonymity that the armed robbers who drove in a white Starlet saloon car at about 2.30pm, intercepted the vehicle carrying the police escort and the local government officials.